Envirotech Limited

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Envirotech Limited
Internationalising Environmental Solutions 16th
April 2009 Duxford Conference Centre

• A business support community for Environmental
  Solutions Companies

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Some things are changing
2009
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Some things only seem to be
Innovated in Cambridge
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cleantech is now creating many different markets
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Envirotech - who, what, where, why?

• A not-for-profit membership organisation,
  evolved out of Envirolink UK Ltd
• principally Hugh Parnell, Alan Mitcham, Prof.
  Doug Crawford-Brown
• The ambition is to be a national support
  organisation for innovative and growing
  environmental solutions businesses
• exactly what the members need varies over
  time and for different members
• It has been centred around Cambridge by its
  origins but is now working on a wider, national
  scale, with SMEs and larger companies
• and indeed internationally with links to similar
  organisations around 5 continents
• Others may be offering pan-environmental sector
  nationwide organisations set up to provide
  support to SMEs, as we seek to do
• for other sectors, eg ERBI for biotech
  companies, there have long been similar
  organisations since 2002 we have been pursuing
  this support role for environmental technology
  developers and suppliers

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Envirotech works for members in 3 different ways

• Networking - bringing people together, community
  building and linkage
• physically, by meetings such as todays, and
  future special interest groups
• in virtual space via www.envirotechuk.org
• there is a Directory, a Library, members can
  interact, communities can create their own pages,
  best practise can be shared via case studies etc

• Brokering and intermediation making things
  happen
• real growing businesses need different support
  at different stages
• examples of our partners who can provide support
  include
• access to funding, recruitment, IR and PR,
  web-design, marketing, IP, accounts and
  bookkeeping, banking, legal support, overseas
  expansion, translation, technical writing, access
  to markets and customers, supply chain linkage,
  assistance with academic/business links and with
  RD support, training.

• Delivery of support ourselves if we can, we
  will
• The core team includes expertise in
  environmental science and regulations, business
  development and funding, web design and
  marketing, project management

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Regional cleantech organisations working together
Carbon Coalition
LCIC
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Some other partners and supporters with whom we
are in dialogue include
MerchantBridge
and lots of funding sources ..
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Can Envirotech help your business grow,
internationally?
Slowdown, what slowdown?
THANK YOU VERY MUCH
hugh.parnell_at_envirotechuk.org
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Find the right investor to come on the
journey with you
most of the traditional sources of growth funding
are currently in hiding
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What about cleantech? New
opportunity?
but is it recession-proof and can it make money?